Music for

Noisy Places

Ambient music for focus, rest, meditation, and sleep. Imagined rooms that hold steady, and soften whatever's happening around you.

It isn't out yet. A handful of emails between now and launch, then nothing but the occasional new room.

Coming soon to the App Store

iPhone · Best with headphones, day or night

Enter

The idea

Somewhere to put your mind.

Deep work at a loud desk. Twenty minutes for a mind that won't settle. Sleep on the night flight. Every room here is a suite of pieces that play continuously, written to be lived in: steady, unhurried, asking nothing of you. Underneath it all runs a floor of sound that quietly softens the room around you.

Room to think

A fan can't hold your attention, and nothing will if it's boring. Real compositions with the steadiness of noise: bright, unhurried mixes for the hours that have to count.

Deep enough to rest

No courses, no streaks, no narrator telling you how to breathe. Just somewhere to sit for a while, relax at the end of the day, or fall asleep in a bed that isn't yours.

Still covers the noise

A continuous broadband floor of water, wind and air runs under every track with no swells and no gaps, so voices, chewing and tapping blur back into texture you can ignore.

The rooms

Choose a door.
Stay a while.

Focus, Unwind, Relax, Sleep.

A misty bamboo grove above a shallow stone-bedded stream.

Free forever

The Bamboo Grove

Rain-wet stalks, moving water, green light. Four tracks, Green Hour to Understory.

A dark stone bathhouse, still water and a single vertical light.

The Baths

Steam, slate, and the long echo of a room made of water. Four tracks, First Light on Water to Deep Water.

An ochre chamber with a column of daylight falling through an oculus.

The Sanctum

One shaft of light, a bell somewhere far off, warm air. Four tracks, Procession to Last Bell.

A vast dune ridge under a dust-coloured sky, a tiny doorway at the crest.

The Dunes

Dry wind over sand, the oldest broadband sound there is. Four tracks, High Sun to Night Crossing.

Green aurora over snow mountains and a frozen lake at night.

The Tundra

Polar wind, ice hiss, and light moving where you can't hear it. Four tracks, White Morning to Under the Lights.

More doors
to come.

New rooms are being composed now. Each one is included as it opens.

Press play on a door for thirty seconds of what's behind it, each one taken from a different point on the dial. A room isn't one track but a suite of four, bright to deep. Pick a piece and it plays continuously for as long as you stay.

The mix

Every track comes apart in your hands.

Each piece is layered, not flattened. Drag to blend, tap to mute. Pull the piano out when you need to think, push the pads up when the room gets loud. The place stays; the music bends to it.

Pads the steady bed under everything
Bass weight and floor
Drums pulse, when you want one
Sound FX water, wind, room
Melody the part you'll hum later, or play yourself

The Bamboo Grove player with its five-stem mixer along the bottom.

The Baths player, a dark stone bathhouse with the mixer visible.

Play along

Reach in and play.

Listening is only half of it. Every piece carries interactive elements you can touch, including the melody, which you can play yourself. Add a phrase when the mood takes you; stop, and the piece carries on as if you'd always been part of it. No practice, no score. Just your hands in the music.

A person by a window, headphones around their neck, touching a glowing point of light in The Bamboo Grove on an iPhone.

How it goes

Put the headphones on.
That's most of it.

Open the hall

The app opens on a quiet corridor of doors. No feed, no streaks, nothing asking for your attention.

ii.

Walk through

Pick a room and the door opens into it. Sound and image arrive together, so the change of room feels real.

iii.

Set your level

Blend the layers to the hour: brighter to work, dimmer to drift, more floor when the room gets loud. Then leave it alone. It plays for as long as you do.

A pair of pale doors standing slightly open in a sunlit marble wall.

Pricing

One room is always free.

Free

The Bamboo Grove, in full. Not a trial, not a teaser.

The complete four-piece suite
The full layer mixer
Offline playback

Yearly · best value

$19.99 _{/ year}

Every room, every track, and everything added while you're subscribed. Seven days free.

All five launch rooms
New rooms as they arrive
Offline playback & background audio
Under $1.70 a month

Monthly

$2.99 _{/ month}

Same catalogue, month to month. Cancel any time in Settings.

All five launch rooms
New rooms as they arrive
Offline playback & background audio

Prices shown in USD; local pricing is set by the App Store. No ads, ever. No account to create. Your subscription lives with your Apple ID.

Questions

Before you ask

Is it for focus, sleep, or meditation?

All of it, and anything else that goes better with a quieter head. Each room is a suite of four moods along one spine: bright to focus, warm to unwind, dusk to relax, deep to sleep. Whichever piece you pick plays continuously for as long as you leave it on. Same room, different hour.

Is this a meditation app?

No, and it won't ask you to start a practice. There are no courses, no streaks, no narrator telling you how to breathe. It's a place to go for twenty minutes: pick a room, sit inside it, play along with it if your hands want something to do, and leave when you're ready.

Does this actually block noise?

Not block, but mask. Nothing played through headphones removes an outside sound. What music can do is raise the floor around it, so a voice you were tracking word-by-word turns back into texture you can ignore. The same goes for the small sounds that other people never seem to notice: chewing, tapping, a pen clicking four desks away.

That's a design constraint, not a happy accident: every track keeps a continuous broadband layer for exactly this reason. Pair it with noise-cancelling headphones and the two do different halves of the job.

Will it drain my battery or need a signal?

Every track ships inside the app, so it plays with no signal at all, and audio keeps running with the screen off and in the background. Long sessions are the normal case here, so they're what it's tuned for.

Who makes the music, and is any of it AI?

People do. It's written, arranged and mixed by humans, and original to this app. We'll be upfront about one thing: to work faster we use procedural composition tools, custom software that sketches out chord voicings, patterns and basslines from rules we set. Think capable arpeggiator, not artificial intelligence.

That's a different thing from generative AI like Suno. Those models are trained on catalogues of existing recordings and hand back a finished track from a prompt. Ours are trained on nothing, and they produce notes, not audio. Real people set the harmony, keep or rewrite every phrase, and play it all through instruments we license and mix ourselves. The tools speed up the typing, not the composing.

What happens if I cancel?

You keep full access until the end of the period you've paid for, then drop back to the free room, which stays free. You can resubscribe later and pick up exactly where you left off.

Peace, even here.

The open-plan floor, seat 14B on the night flight, the flat above yours at eleven, and some days, just the inside of your own head. You can't always make them quiet. You can be somewhere else.